Re: Lyx numbering equations
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015, Robert Susmilch wrote: I have Googled a way to refer to numbered equations in text, such as See equation (3) in Lyx but everything I read, whether from other users or wikis, suggests labeling the already numbered equations and then using the label to cross reference. This seems absurd This has been discussed before on this list. The requirement to have a label makes good sense: how do you propose to refer to an equation that does not have a label? Remember that its number will change as equations are added or removed, whereas the label will not change. It seems like you may wish to have a cross reference that says the following: refer to the *current* equation (3), and update the number in the cross reference if the corresponding equation number changes. This might be implemented by having LyX create a unique but hidden label for every numbered equation, and providing some sort of user interface to refer to it. For good reasons or bad, this is not the way LyX and latex work. Note that numbered equations are no different in this respect than are numbered sections, etc. dave case
Re: Lyx numbering equations
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015, Robert Susmilch wrote: I have Googled a way to refer to numbered equations in text, such as See equation (3) in Lyx but everything I read, whether from other users or wikis, suggests labeling the already numbered equations and then using the label to cross reference. This seems absurd This has been discussed before on this list. The requirement to have a label makes good sense: how do you propose to refer to an equation that does not have a label? Remember that its number will change as equations are added or removed, whereas the label will not change. It seems like you may wish to have a cross reference that says the following: refer to the *current* equation (3), and update the number in the cross reference if the corresponding equation number changes. This might be implemented by having LyX create a unique but hidden label for every numbered equation, and providing some sort of user interface to refer to it. For good reasons or bad, this is not the way LyX and latex work. Note that numbered equations are no different in this respect than are numbered sections, etc. dave case
Re: Lyx numbering equations
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015, Robert Susmilch wrote: > > I have Googled a way to refer to numbered equations in text, such as > "See equation (3)" in Lyx but everything I read, whether from other > users or wikis, suggests labeling the already numbered equations and > then using the label to cross reference. > > This seems absurd This has been discussed before on this list. The requirement to have a label makes good sense: how do you propose to refer to an equation that does not have a label? Remember that its number will change as equations are added or removed, whereas the label will not change. It seems like you may wish to have a cross reference that says the following: "refer to the *current* equation (3), and update the number in the cross reference if the corresponding equation number changes." This might be implemented by having LyX create a unique but hidden label for every numbered equation, and providing some sort of user interface to refer to it. For good reasons or bad, this is not the way LyX and latex work. Note that numbered equations are no different in this respect than are numbered sections, etc. dave case
Will there be a version 2.0.x that can import 2.1.0 files?
In the past, there have been final releases of a series that are able to read files created by the next LyX format. Are there plans (and a estimated time) for a 2.0.8 release that can read 2.1 files? ...thanks...dave case
Will there be a version 2.0.x that can import 2.1.0 files?
In the past, there have been final releases of a series that are able to read files created by the next LyX format. Are there plans (and a estimated time) for a 2.0.8 release that can read 2.1 files? ...thanks...dave case
Will there be a version 2.0.x that can import 2.1.0 files?
In the past, there have been "final" releases of a series that are able to read files created by the "next" LyX format. Are there plans (and a estimated time) for a "2.0.8" release that can read 2.1 files? ...thanks...dave case
Re: Child documents, integration and citation
On Sat, May 19, 2012, Ray Rashif wrote: For now I don't see much of a problem but I don't know how I'm going to deal with it once I'm in the range of hundreds of pages and a number of chapters. FWIW, it's certainly possible and convenient to have a single lyx document with hundreds of pages and many chapters. I've written several books of 500-1000 pages, and appreciate the simplicity of only dealing with a single file, and being able to navigate around without having to load new files. I've never seen any slowness that bothered me. Your mileage may vary. dave case
Re: Child documents, integration and citation
On Sat, May 19, 2012, Ray Rashif wrote: For now I don't see much of a problem but I don't know how I'm going to deal with it once I'm in the range of hundreds of pages and a number of chapters. FWIW, it's certainly possible and convenient to have a single lyx document with hundreds of pages and many chapters. I've written several books of 500-1000 pages, and appreciate the simplicity of only dealing with a single file, and being able to navigate around without having to load new files. I've never seen any slowness that bothered me. Your mileage may vary. dave case
Re: Child documents, integration and citation
On Sat, May 19, 2012, Ray Rashif wrote: > For now I don't see much of a problem but I don't know how I'm going > to deal with it once I'm in the range of hundreds of pages and a > number of chapters. FWIW, it's certainly possible and convenient to have a single lyx document with hundreds of pages and many chapters. I've written several books of 500-1000 pages, and appreciate the simplicity of only dealing with a single file, and being able to navigate around without having to load new files. I've never seen any slowness that bothered me. Your mileage may vary. dave case
Re: copying from MS Word to LyX
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012, Wilfried wrote: Even at least one publisher of scientific journals (I don't remember who) requests authors NOT to use the new Word 2007 - 2010 equation editor but the old equation editor or MathType. This is common in my field (chemistry): scientific journals ask for Word documents as .doc files, and will *not* accept .docx, even though the latter format has by now been around for some time. I often encourage publishers to consider accepting LaTex, but to little avail. ...dave case
Re: copying from MS Word to LyX
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012, Wilfried wrote: Even at least one publisher of scientific journals (I don't remember who) requests authors NOT to use the new Word 2007 - 2010 equation editor but the old equation editor or MathType. This is common in my field (chemistry): scientific journals ask for Word documents as .doc files, and will *not* accept .docx, even though the latter format has by now been around for some time. I often encourage publishers to consider accepting LaTex, but to little avail. ...dave case
Re: copying from MS Word to LyX
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012, Wilfried wrote: > > Even at least one publisher of > scientific journals (I don't remember who) requests authors NOT to use > the new Word 2007 - 2010 equation editor but the old equation editor or > MathType. This is common in my field (chemistry): scientific journals ask for Word documents as .doc files, and will *not* accept .docx, even though the latter format has by now been around for some time. I often encourage publishers to consider accepting LaTex, but to little avail. ...dave case
Re: copying from MS Word to LyX
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012, Leslaw Bieniasz wrote: I am new to LaTeX and LyX. I have a document written in MS Word, containing lots of math equations plus text, and I want to copy it into LyX. My experience has been that word2tex is the only program that will work well with lots of math equations. But over the years, Word has handled math in a bunch of different ways, so I'd recommend getting an evaluation version first, and making sure it works for your particular word documents. ...dave case
Re: copying from MS Word to LyX
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012, Leslaw Bieniasz wrote: I am new to LaTeX and LyX. I have a document written in MS Word, containing lots of math equations plus text, and I want to copy it into LyX. My experience has been that word2tex is the only program that will work well with lots of math equations. But over the years, Word has handled math in a bunch of different ways, so I'd recommend getting an evaluation version first, and making sure it works for your particular word documents. ...dave case
Re: copying from MS Word to LyX
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012, Leslaw Bieniasz wrote: > > I am new to LaTeX and LyX. I have a document written in MS Word, containing > lots of math equations plus text, and I want to copy it into LyX. My experience has been that word2tex is the only program that will work well with "lots of math equations". But over the years, Word has handled math in a bunch of different ways, so I'd recommend getting an evaluation version first, and making sure it works for your particular word documents. ...dave case
Re: Lyx compile corrupt OpenDocument documents
On 09/16/2011 11:27 AM, Kalisch Dominik P.H. wrote: I need to export my document, with a heavy use of formulasm tables and images, to word. I also need to do this, primarily for scientific journals that accept only .doc files (i.e. the older Word format). At least in my field (chemistry and biology), there are a lot of journals like this. I've tried exporting to html (by several methods), then importing the html into Microsoft Word. This can work pretty well for text and tables, moderately well for bibliographic citations (depends a lot on what bib style files you use) and for figure captions (the figures themselves are expected by the journals I use to be in separate files anyway). Simple equations can be OK, but complex equations are sure to fail. You can use either elyxer (with the --html flag) or the export to html (not xhtml) native to Lyx 2.0. Note that any limitations are *not* the fault of html converters (which work remarkably well for their intended purpose), but are the result of limitations in Word's ability to take html as an input format. For equations, the only thing I've found that almost works is tex2word (just Google it). This is a commercial program that only runs on Windows, but fills a real need for me, so much so that I have a virtual Windows machine that I use pretty much just for that purpose. The program is limited (it doesn't recognize all latex packages, and you often have to manually tweak the latex file you give it), but the support staff is quite helpful and nothing else [that I have tried] comes close if you have lots of equations. (You do also need to have MathType, which means yet more money.) One thing missing from tex2word, but promised soon, is natbib support. Also, tables are far from perfect -- I've gone to the trouble of converting tables via html, and the rest of a manuscript via tex2wordsigh. [The pain is that, almost inevitably, the equations are going to manually re-typeset by the publisher anyway, so a difficult (and error-prone) conversion to .doc is just a waste of everyone's time. I know of cases where journals demanded .doc format, only to convert back to latex to actually typset the article. But authors are often powerless to fight city hall.] ...just my conclusions based in limited experience, but maybe it will help. ...dave case
Re: Lyx compile corrupt OpenDocument documents
On 09/16/2011 11:27 AM, Kalisch Dominik P.H. wrote: I need to export my document, with a heavy use of formulasm tables and images, to word. I also need to do this, primarily for scientific journals that accept only .doc files (i.e. the older Word format). At least in my field (chemistry and biology), there are a lot of journals like this. I've tried exporting to html (by several methods), then importing the html into Microsoft Word. This can work pretty well for text and tables, moderately well for bibliographic citations (depends a lot on what bib style files you use) and for figure captions (the figures themselves are expected by the journals I use to be in separate files anyway). Simple equations can be OK, but complex equations are sure to fail. You can use either elyxer (with the --html flag) or the export to html (not xhtml) native to Lyx 2.0. Note that any limitations are *not* the fault of html converters (which work remarkably well for their intended purpose), but are the result of limitations in Word's ability to take html as an input format. For equations, the only thing I've found that almost works is tex2word (just Google it). This is a commercial program that only runs on Windows, but fills a real need for me, so much so that I have a virtual Windows machine that I use pretty much just for that purpose. The program is limited (it doesn't recognize all latex packages, and you often have to manually tweak the latex file you give it), but the support staff is quite helpful and nothing else [that I have tried] comes close if you have lots of equations. (You do also need to have MathType, which means yet more money.) One thing missing from tex2word, but promised soon, is natbib support. Also, tables are far from perfect -- I've gone to the trouble of converting tables via html, and the rest of a manuscript via tex2wordsigh. [The pain is that, almost inevitably, the equations are going to manually re-typeset by the publisher anyway, so a difficult (and error-prone) conversion to .doc is just a waste of everyone's time. I know of cases where journals demanded .doc format, only to convert back to latex to actually typset the article. But authors are often powerless to fight city hall.] ...just my conclusions based in limited experience, but maybe it will help. ...dave case
Re: Lyx compile corrupt OpenDocument documents
On 09/16/2011 11:27 AM, Kalisch Dominik P.H. wrote: > > > >I need to export my > >document, with a heavy use of formulasm tables and images, to word. I also need to do this, primarily for scientific journals that accept only ".doc" files (i.e. the older Word format). At least in my field (chemistry and biology), there are a lot of journals like this. I've tried exporting to html (by several methods), then importing the html into Microsoft Word. This can work pretty well for text and tables, moderately well for bibliographic citations (depends a lot on what bib style files you use) and for figure captions (the figures themselves are expected by the journals I use to be in separate files anyway). Simple equations can be OK, but complex equations are sure to fail. You can use either elyxer (with the --html flag) or the export to html (not xhtml) native to Lyx 2.0. Note that any limitations are *not* the fault of html converters (which work remarkably well for their intended purpose), but are the result of limitations in Word's ability to take html as an input format. For equations, the only thing I've found that "almost" works is tex2word (just Google it). This is a commercial program that only runs on Windows, but fills a real need for me, so much so that I have a virtual Windows machine that I use pretty much just for that purpose. The program is limited (it doesn't recognize all latex packages, and you often have to manually tweak the latex file you give it), but the support staff is quite helpful and nothing else [that I have tried] comes close if you have lots of equations. (You do also need to have MathType, which means yet more money.) One thing missing from tex2word, but promised "soon", is natbib support. Also, tables are far from perfect -- I've gone to the trouble of converting tables via html, and the rest of a manuscript via tex2wordsigh. [The "pain" is that, almost inevitably, the equations are going to manually re-typeset by the publisher anyway, so a difficult (and error-prone) conversion to .doc is just a waste of everyone's time. I know of cases where journals demanded .doc format, only to convert back to latex to actually typset the article. But authors are often powerless to "fight city hall".] ...just my conclusions based in limited experience, but maybe it will help. ...dave case
Re: Page number
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009, Julio Rojas wrote: Dear all, I am using LyX with a book (Memoir) class to write my thesis. I have seen that though the page number is on the right (left) side of odd (even) pages, the inner margin (the biggest one) is also to the right (left) side of odd (even) pages. So, the page number is always on the same side of the biggest margin, which is wrong as they should be on opposite sides. I haven't touched the way LyX/LaTeX handles this issue, so I would like to know why the standard way of handling it is erroneous, at least to my knowledge. Why do you equate inner margin with the biggest one? In a standard book layout, the opposite would be true. This has been discussed many times on this mailing list, so a search of the archives may help. Say reply for the page numbers: generally, the page number would be at the same side of the page as the bigger (outer) margin. ...dave case
Re: Page number
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009, Julio Rojas wrote: Dear all, I am using LyX with a book (Memoir) class to write my thesis. I have seen that though the page number is on the right (left) side of odd (even) pages, the inner margin (the biggest one) is also to the right (left) side of odd (even) pages. So, the page number is always on the same side of the biggest margin, which is wrong as they should be on opposite sides. I haven't touched the way LyX/LaTeX handles this issue, so I would like to know why the standard way of handling it is erroneous, at least to my knowledge. Why do you equate inner margin with the biggest one? In a standard book layout, the opposite would be true. This has been discussed many times on this mailing list, so a search of the archives may help. Say reply for the page numbers: generally, the page number would be at the same side of the page as the bigger (outer) margin. ...dave case
Re: Page number
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009, Julio Rojas wrote: > Dear all, I am using LyX with a book (Memoir) class to write my > thesis. I have seen that though the page number is on the right (left) > side of odd (even) pages, the inner margin (the biggest one) is also > to the right (left) side of odd (even) pages. So, the page number is > always on the same side of the biggest margin, which is wrong as they > should be on opposite sides. I haven't touched the way LyX/LaTeX > handles this issue, so I would like to know why the standard way of > handling it is erroneous, at least to my knowledge. Why do you equate "inner margin" with "the biggest one"? In a standard book layout, the opposite would be true. This has been discussed many times on this mailing list, so a search of the archives may help. Say reply for the page numbers: generally, the page number would be at the same side of the page as the bigger (outer) margin. ...dave case
Re: LyX .doc
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009, 0 wrote: Can I a) save b) export c) edit a document in MS Word (.doc) format in LyX? If you access to a Windows machine, and it's important enough to you to spend some money on, I recommend word2tex and tex2word. This will handle more than just plain text (i.e. mostly works for equations as well), and can handle big, book-length projects. This is overkill for casual use, but if you get stuck with 14 book chapters in the wrong format, it's certainly worth considering. Just Google to find out more. ...dave case
Re: LyX .doc
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009, 0 wrote: Can I a) save b) export c) edit a document in MS Word (.doc) format in LyX? If you access to a Windows machine, and it's important enough to you to spend some money on, I recommend word2tex and tex2word. This will handle more than just plain text (i.e. mostly works for equations as well), and can handle big, book-length projects. This is overkill for casual use, but if you get stuck with 14 book chapters in the wrong format, it's certainly worth considering. Just Google to find out more. ...dave case
Re: LyX & ".doc"
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009, 0 wrote: > Can I > > a) save > b) export > c) edit > > a document in MS Word (.doc) format in LyX? If you access to a Windows machine, and it's important enough to you to spend some money on, I recommend word2tex and tex2word. This will handle more than just plain text (i.e. mostly works for equations as well), and can handle big, book-length projects. This is overkill for casual use, but if you get stuck with 14 book chapters in the "wrong" format, it's certainly worth considering. Just Google to find out more. ...dave case
Re: sorting multiple references in itself
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009, Guenter Milde wrote:
I need to sort my multiple references...my references are sorted =
according to their occurence on the file and follows the order quiet =
well but when I give a multiple reference, [21,1,3,7] can be =
generated..but I want to sort this group in itself automatically.
Put
% Compressed, sorted lists of numerical citations: [8,11-16]
\usepackage[noadjust]{cite}
in the LaTeX preamble. (Read the cite doc for alternative options.)
As an alternative, use the sortcompress option to natbib. You enter this
as a class option (Document - Setting - Document class tab), not on the
bibliography tab.
...dave case
Re: sorting multiple references in itself
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009, Guenter Milde wrote:
I need to sort my multiple references...my references are sorted =
according to their occurence on the file and follows the order quiet =
well but when I give a multiple reference, [21,1,3,7] can be =
generated..but I want to sort this group in itself automatically.
Put
% Compressed, sorted lists of numerical citations: [8,11-16]
\usepackage[noadjust]{cite}
in the LaTeX preamble. (Read the cite doc for alternative options.)
As an alternative, use the sortcompress option to natbib. You enter this
as a class option (Document - Setting - Document class tab), not on the
bibliography tab.
...dave case
Re: sorting multiple references in itself
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009, Guenter Milde wrote:
> > I need to sort my multiple references...my references are sorted =
> > according to their occurence on the file and follows the order quiet =
> > well but when I give a multiple reference, [21,1,3,7] can be =
> > generated..but I want to sort this group in itself automatically.
>
> Put
>
> % Compressed, sorted lists of numerical citations: [8,11-16]
> \usepackage[noadjust]{cite}
>
> in the LaTeX preamble. (Read the "cite" doc for alternative options.)
>
As an alternative, use the "sort" option to natbib. You enter this
as a class option (Document -> Setting -> Document class tab), not on the
bibliography tab.
...dave case
kpsewhich appears to require root permissions (Ubunutu 9.04)
I know this is a LaTeX (or Tex-live) question, but it keeps me from running LyX: I upgraded from ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04; now kpsewhich requires root permissions: e.g. kpsewhich article.cls returns nothins, but sudo kpsewhich article.cls returns the correct path. Hence, LyX seems to work fine when invoked as root, but not as an ordinary user. Does anyone know how to debug this? I used synaptic to uninstall, then reinstall texlive, but that had now effect. All of the ls-R files appear to be world readable. Running (sudo) texhash doesn't change anything. /usr/bin/kpsewhich has world-executable permissions. ...thanks!...dave case
Re: kpsewhich appears to require root permissions (Ubunutu 9.04) --FIXED
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009, David A. Case wrote: I upgraded from ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04; now kpsewhich requires root permissions: e.g. kpsewhich article.cls returns nothins, but sudo kpsewhich article.cls returns the correct path. Sorry for the false alarm--I tracked the problem down to a stray (and incorrect) TEXINPUTS environment variable. Root was working just because the root account did not have the bad variable. Sorry for the noise...thx..dac
kpsewhich appears to require root permissions (Ubunutu 9.04)
I know this is a LaTeX (or Tex-live) question, but it keeps me from running LyX: I upgraded from ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04; now kpsewhich requires root permissions: e.g. kpsewhich article.cls returns nothins, but sudo kpsewhich article.cls returns the correct path. Hence, LyX seems to work fine when invoked as root, but not as an ordinary user. Does anyone know how to debug this? I used synaptic to uninstall, then reinstall texlive, but that had now effect. All of the ls-R files appear to be world readable. Running (sudo) texhash doesn't change anything. /usr/bin/kpsewhich has world-executable permissions. ...thanks!...dave case
Re: kpsewhich appears to require root permissions (Ubunutu 9.04) --FIXED
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009, David A. Case wrote: I upgraded from ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04; now kpsewhich requires root permissions: e.g. kpsewhich article.cls returns nothins, but sudo kpsewhich article.cls returns the correct path. Sorry for the false alarm--I tracked the problem down to a stray (and incorrect) TEXINPUTS environment variable. Root was working just because the root account did not have the bad variable. Sorry for the noise...thx..dac
kpsewhich appears to require root permissions (Ubunutu 9.04)
I know this is a LaTeX (or Tex-live) question, but it keeps me from running LyX: I upgraded from ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04; now kpsewhich requires root permissions: e.g. "kpsewhich article.cls" returns nothins, but "sudo kpsewhich article.cls" returns the correct path. Hence, LyX seems to work fine when invoked as root, but not as an ordinary user. Does anyone know how to debug this? I used synaptic to uninstall, then reinstall texlive, but that had now effect. All of the ls-R files appear to be world readable. Running (sudo) texhash doesn't change anything. /usr/bin/kpsewhich has world-executable permissions. ...thanks!...dave case
Re: kpsewhich appears to require root permissions (Ubunutu 9.04) --FIXED
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009, David A. Case wrote: > I upgraded from ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04; now kpsewhich requires root > permissions: e.g. "kpsewhich article.cls" returns nothins, but "sudo > kpsewhich article.cls" returns the correct path. Sorry for the false alarm--I tracked the problem down to a stray (and incorrect) TEXINPUTS environment variable. Root was working just because the root account did not have the bad variable. Sorry for the noise...thx..dac
Re: MS Word to LyX
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: So, it seems the only solution is word2tex -- it appears to do the conversion better than GrindEQ. But it is hard to judge from the trial version, and the real version is quite expensive (and risky, since it seems support is non-existent). I've used word2tex for several of projects. Things still often need tweaking on the Latex side, but (for me) it was much better than any other tool I tried. I mainly used it for a book project with many hundreds of equations. I don't have any experience with Chikrii's support. And it is expensive, although I qualified for the academic discount. ...hope this helpsdave case
Re: MS Word to LyX
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: So, it seems the only solution is word2tex -- it appears to do the conversion better than GrindEQ. But it is hard to judge from the trial version, and the real version is quite expensive (and risky, since it seems support is non-existent). I've used word2tex for several of projects. Things still often need tweaking on the Latex side, but (for me) it was much better than any other tool I tried. I mainly used it for a book project with many hundreds of equations. I don't have any experience with Chikrii's support. And it is expensive, although I qualified for the academic discount. ...hope this helpsdave case
Re: MS Word to LyX
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: > So, it seems the only solution is word2tex -- it appears to > do the conversion better than GrindEQ. But it is hard > to judge from the trial version, and the real version is > quite expensive (and risky, since it seems support is > non-existent). > I've used word2tex for several of projects. Things still often need tweaking on the Latex side, but (for me) it was much better than any other tool I tried. I mainly used it for a book project with many hundreds of equations. I don't have any experience with Chikrii's support. And it is expensive, although I qualified for the academic discount. ...hope this helpsdave case
Re: Amazon Kindle Conversion from Lyx?
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008, Jonathan Kroner wrote: Amazon accepts only the following file formats for conversion for viewing on Kindle: MS Word (.DOC),Structured HTML (.HTML, .HTM), .JPEG, .JPG , .GIF, .PNG, and .BMP. It will not accept a pdf. Sounds like MS Word is the closest fit to your document, so you might consider that route. There are lots of ways to do this, but tex2word (just Google for it) has worked well for me. (I have *not* used this to create Kindle files, just to create Word files). ...good luck...dave case
Re: Amazon Kindle Conversion from Lyx?
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008, Jonathan Kroner wrote: Amazon accepts only the following file formats for conversion for viewing on Kindle: MS Word (.DOC),Structured HTML (.HTML, .HTM), .JPEG, .JPG , .GIF, .PNG, and .BMP. It will not accept a pdf. Sounds like MS Word is the closest fit to your document, so you might consider that route. There are lots of ways to do this, but tex2word (just Google for it) has worked well for me. (I have *not* used this to create Kindle files, just to create Word files). ...good luck...dave case
Re: Amazon Kindle Conversion from Lyx?
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008, Jonathan Kroner wrote: > > Amazon accepts only the following file formats for conversion for viewing on > Kindle: MS Word (.DOC),Structured HTML (.HTML, .HTM), .JPEG, .JPG , .GIF, > .PNG, and .BMP. It will not accept a pdf. Sounds like MS Word is the closest fit to your document, so you might consider that route. There are lots of ways to do this, but tex2word (just Google for it) has worked well for me. (I have *not* used this to create Kindle files, just to create Word files). ...good luck...dave case
Re: Someone uses my Bugzilla account
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: i just tried to search out that old case and i found the name is OK now! so i made new experiment in http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5429 in comment 6 and my name was changed into David A. Case. i just wonder when bugzilla switch it to my name :D Or, how did bugzilla get my name and (old) email address? I've never used the lyx bugzilla site at all, either through the web or email. I have posted a few comments to the lyx-users mailing list, but don't know how/why that is relevant. ...dave case
Re: Someone uses my Bugzilla account
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: i just tried to search out that old case and i found the name is OK now! so i made new experiment in http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5429 in comment 6 and my name was changed into David A. Case. i just wonder when bugzilla switch it to my name :D Or, how did bugzilla get my name and (old) email address? I've never used the lyx bugzilla site at all, either through the web or email. I have posted a few comments to the lyx-users mailing list, but don't know how/why that is relevant. ...dave case
Re: Someone uses my Bugzilla account
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: > i just tried to search out that old case and i found the name is OK now! so i > made new experiment in http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5429 in comment > 6 and my name was changed into David A. Case. i just wonder when bugzilla > switch it to my name :D Or, how did bugzilla get my name and (old) email address? I've never used the lyx bugzilla site at all, either through the web or email. I have posted a few comments to the lyx-users mailing list, but don't know how/why that is relevant. ...dave case
Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...
On Fri, May 02, 2008, snvv wrote: You may try the geometry package. Then you may define the page in all possible ways From the users' perspective, this is what happens: 1. an article with Document-Page layout set to US Letter (and Document-Page Margins is set to default) is likely to come out of pdflatex as A4 (unless, unlike me, you know enough LaTeX configuration stuff to configure pdflatex to do something different). 2. However, if you set non-default margins, then the geometry package gets called, and pdflatex will create a US letter physical page. To me, this is a bug or deficiency in LyX: if the user selects US Letter on the page layout selection, LyX should create LaTeX code that does what the user almost certainly wants: have logical *and* physical pages set to US Letter. If there is a real need to allow the user to control both logical page size and physical page size separately, then maybe a new checkbox could be added to the paper size section of the Page Layout widget. ...dave case
Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...
On Fri, May 02, 2008, snvv wrote: You may try the geometry package. Then you may define the page in all possible ways From the users' perspective, this is what happens: 1. an article with Document-Page layout set to US Letter (and Document-Page Margins is set to default) is likely to come out of pdflatex as A4 (unless, unlike me, you know enough LaTeX configuration stuff to configure pdflatex to do something different). 2. However, if you set non-default margins, then the geometry package gets called, and pdflatex will create a US letter physical page. To me, this is a bug or deficiency in LyX: if the user selects US Letter on the page layout selection, LyX should create LaTeX code that does what the user almost certainly wants: have logical *and* physical pages set to US Letter. If there is a real need to allow the user to control both logical page size and physical page size separately, then maybe a new checkbox could be added to the paper size section of the Page Layout widget. ...dave case
Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...
On Fri, May 02, 2008, snvv wrote: > You may try the geometry package. Then you may define the page in all > possible ways >From the users' perspective, this is what happens: 1. an article with Document->Page layout set to "US Letter" (and Document->Page Margins is set to "default") is likely to come out of pdflatex as A4 (unless, unlike me, you know enough LaTeX configuration stuff to configure pdflatex to do something different). 2. However, if you set non-default margins, then the geometry package gets called, and pdflatex will create a "US letter" physical page. To me, this is a bug or deficiency in LyX: if the user selects "US Letter" on the page layout selection, LyX should create LaTeX code that does what the user almost certainly wants: have logical *and* physical pages set to US Letter. If there is a real need to allow the user to control both logical page size and physical page size separately, then maybe a new checkbox could be added to the "paper size" section of the Page Layout widget. ...dave case
Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008, Oscar Lopez wrote: My colleague uses the windows version of lyx and I use the linux version. I am quite satisfied with the current support of xfig at lyx using external material. However, as far as I know, xfig only runs at linux machines... Xfig runs fine under cygwin (as, in fact, does LyX itself). Cygwin provides excellent tools for making windows appear like linux; this may or may not be what your colleague wants. And there is a learning curve here. But one possibility is to install Xfig and LyX in cygwin, with no need for MikTex. For information, see http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnCygwin. There are pre-built cygwin binaries for LyX-1.5.x available. Of course, there are also other vector drawing programs (besides Xfig), so what is outlined here is not the only option you have. ...dave case
Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008, Oscar Lopez wrote: My colleague uses the windows version of lyx and I use the linux version. I am quite satisfied with the current support of xfig at lyx using external material. However, as far as I know, xfig only runs at linux machines... Xfig runs fine under cygwin (as, in fact, does LyX itself). Cygwin provides excellent tools for making windows appear like linux; this may or may not be what your colleague wants. And there is a learning curve here. But one possibility is to install Xfig and LyX in cygwin, with no need for MikTex. For information, see http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnCygwin. There are pre-built cygwin binaries for LyX-1.5.x available. Of course, there are also other vector drawing programs (besides Xfig), so what is outlined here is not the only option you have. ...dave case
Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008, Oscar Lopez wrote: > > My colleague uses the windows version of lyx and I use the linux > version. I am quite satisfied with the current support of xfig at lyx > using external material. However, as far as I know, xfig only runs at linux > machines... Xfig runs fine under cygwin (as, in fact, does LyX itself). Cygwin provides excellent tools for making windows appear like linux; this may or may not be what your colleague wants. And there is a learning curve here. But one possibility is to install Xfig and LyX in cygwin, with no need for MikTex. For information, see http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnCygwin. There are pre-built cygwin binaries for LyX-1.5.x available. Of course, there are also other vector drawing programs (besides Xfig), so what is outlined here is not the only option you have. ...dave case
Re: pdf output of boldsymbol math does not work
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Assuming I'm using Times, if I have to choose between a close match between the math and text fonts or having bold symbols, I'll typically take the bold symbols. I think the choice is between a good match between math and text, but (somewhat) inferior bold Greek letters and other math symbols (bold Roman letters are fine), versus a poorer match between math and text, with (somewhat) better quality bold Greek letters and math symbols. As has been pointed out, the mathpazo package doesn't have this problem, but I find that its distinction between bold and non-bold Greek letters is too subtle for my aging eyes. Using the mathptmx and bm packages makes a bigger distinction here, and also uses the Adobe symbol font, which is (to me) more pleasing and is less likely to lead to font problems in PDF files. Of course, there is no right or wrong answer here. A lot depends on how heavily one uses bold math constructs, and what looks good! ...dave case
Re: pdf output of boldsymbol math does not work
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Assuming I'm using Times, if I have to choose between a close match between the math and text fonts or having bold symbols, I'll typically take the bold symbols. I think the choice is between a good match between math and text, but (somewhat) inferior bold Greek letters and other math symbols (bold Roman letters are fine), versus a poorer match between math and text, with (somewhat) better quality bold Greek letters and math symbols. As has been pointed out, the mathpazo package doesn't have this problem, but I find that its distinction between bold and non-bold Greek letters is too subtle for my aging eyes. Using the mathptmx and bm packages makes a bigger distinction here, and also uses the Adobe symbol font, which is (to me) more pleasing and is less likely to lead to font problems in PDF files. Of course, there is no right or wrong answer here. A lot depends on how heavily one uses bold math constructs, and what looks good! ...dave case
Re: pdf output of boldsymbol math does not work
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Assuming I'm using Times, if I have to choose between a close match > between the math and text fonts or having bold symbols, I'll typically > take the bold symbols. I think the choice is between a good match between math and text, but (somewhat) inferior bold Greek letters and other math symbols (bold Roman letters are fine), versus a poorer match between math and text, with (somewhat) better quality bold Greek letters and math symbols. As has been pointed out, the mathpazo package doesn't have this problem, but I find that its distinction between bold and non-bold Greek letters is too subtle for my aging eyes. Using the mathptmx and bm packages makes a bigger distinction here, and also uses the Adobe symbol font, which is (to me) more pleasing and is less likely to lead to font problems in PDF files. Of course, there is no "right" or "wrong" answer here. A lot depends on how heavily one uses bold math constructs, and what "looks good"! ...dave case
Re: Display formula numbering IN Lyx document
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008, David Hewitt wrote: I have a bunch of display style equations with numbers and labels. However, the numbers displayed by LyX are almost never right. Sometimes it will open the file and each equation will be number '1', sometimes they'll number by chapter, sometimes a few have '??' instead of numbers. I've gotten used to it, and using labels means it doesn't much matter, but it's odd. The PDF output is fine. Can you be more specific about what you mean by with numbers and labels? How did you get this? I generally have only labels, or a # sign if I ask for an equation number but don't have a label. I don't see places where I have both a number and a label. The fact that the PDF file is fine is encouraging. Maybe you could post a short lyx file that illustrates the problem with view inside of LyX. ...dave case
Re: Display formula numbering IN Lyx document
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008, David Hewitt wrote: I have a bunch of display style equations with numbers and labels. However, the numbers displayed by LyX are almost never right. Sometimes it will open the file and each equation will be number '1', sometimes they'll number by chapter, sometimes a few have '??' instead of numbers. I've gotten used to it, and using labels means it doesn't much matter, but it's odd. The PDF output is fine. Can you be more specific about what you mean by with numbers and labels? How did you get this? I generally have only labels, or a # sign if I ask for an equation number but don't have a label. I don't see places where I have both a number and a label. The fact that the PDF file is fine is encouraging. Maybe you could post a short lyx file that illustrates the problem with view inside of LyX. ...dave case
Re: Display formula numbering IN Lyx document
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008, David Hewitt wrote: > > > I have a bunch of display style equations with numbers and labels. > However, the numbers displayed by LyX are almost never right. Sometimes it > will open the file and each equation will be number '1', sometimes they'll > number by chapter, sometimes a few have '??' instead of numbers. I've gotten > used to it, and using labels means it doesn't much matter, but it's odd. The > PDF output is fine. Can you be more specific about what you mean by "with numbers and labels"? How did you get this? I generally have only labels, or a "#" sign if I ask for an equation number but don't have a label. I don't see places where I have both a number and a label. The fact that the PDF file is fine is encouraging. Maybe you could post a short lyx file that illustrates the problem with view inside of LyX. ...dave case
Re: Converting to OpenOffice
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008, Jorge Sampaio wrote: I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX. (converter to export to OpenOffice messes up considerably the equations in the text. Not good yet) I've had good luck with tex2word, converting an entire book with many hundreds of equations. And word2tex works pretty well in the reverse direction. Just Google to get information. Neither is perfect, but the results, especially for equations, seem much better than the alternatives you mention. (Grindeq is a similar product, but I have no experience with it.) Of course, these solutions cost money and involve proprietary software, which may be a deal-breaker for some people. ...dave case
Re: Converting to OpenOffice
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008, Jorge Sampaio wrote: I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX. (converter to export to OpenOffice messes up considerably the equations in the text. Not good yet) I've had good luck with tex2word, converting an entire book with many hundreds of equations. And word2tex works pretty well in the reverse direction. Just Google to get information. Neither is perfect, but the results, especially for equations, seem much better than the alternatives you mention. (Grindeq is a similar product, but I have no experience with it.) Of course, these solutions cost money and involve proprietary software, which may be a deal-breaker for some people. ...dave case
Re: Converting to OpenOffice
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008, Jorge Sampaio wrote: > I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a > colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX. > > (converter to export to OpenOffice messes up considerably the equations in > the text. Not good yet) I've had good luck with tex2word, converting an entire book with many hundreds of equations. And word2tex works pretty well in the reverse direction. Just Google to get information. Neither is perfect, but the results, especially for equations, seem much better than the alternatives you mention. (Grindeq is a similar product, but I have no experience with it.) Of course, these solutions cost money and involve proprietary software, which may be a deal-breaker for some people. ...dave case
Re: what is this: \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} and why does TexLive hate it?
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: The problem is all those darned foreigners with their accented characters and Cyrillic/kanji/whatever symbols In LyX, go into Document - Settings - Language. You have the language set as English (good choice there, fewer funny characters) Well, you do get fewer funny characters, but only monarchists should follow your choice. Red-blooded patriots who support Big Ten football should choose American as their document language. :-) dave case (MSU, class of 1970)
Re: what is this: \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} and why does TexLive hate it?
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: The problem is all those darned foreigners with their accented characters and Cyrillic/kanji/whatever symbols In LyX, go into Document - Settings - Language. You have the language set as English (good choice there, fewer funny characters) Well, you do get fewer funny characters, but only monarchists should follow your choice. Red-blooded patriots who support Big Ten football should choose American as their document language. :-) dave case (MSU, class of 1970)
Re: what is this: \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} and why does TexLive hate it?
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > The problem is all those darned foreigners with their accented > characters and Cyrillic/kanji/whatever symbols > > In LyX, go into Document -> Settings -> Language. You > have the language set as "English" (good choice there, fewer funny > characters) Well, you do get fewer funny characters, but only monarchists should follow your choice. Red-blooded patriots who support Big Ten football should choose "American" as their document language. :-) dave case (MSU, class of 1970)
Re: lyx cannot display Greek symbol real time
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007, Enrico Forestieri wrote: Using a cygwin text editor (vim is ok, notepad is *not* ok) create the file /etc/fonts/local.conf with the following 5 lines: ?xml version=1.0? !DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM fonts.dtd fontconfig dir/usr/share/lyx/fonts/dir /fontconfig save the file and then issue the following command: fc-cache /usr/share/lyx/fonts Now you should get the greek letters in LyX. Just a note that might help some people: Current cygwin versions install into /usr/local, so you may need to reference /usr/local/share/lyx/fonts instead of /usr/share/lyx/fonts in the instructions above. Just check to see what directories you have. (btw, I see that 1.4.4 is still the current available version) There is a lyx-1.5.2-cygwin.tar.gz at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.2, (and comparable versions for 1.5.0, 1.5.1 and 1.4.5.1). These have all worked fine for me, including showing math fonts. [A personal view: if you are already using cygwin, or if you are familiar with Unix/Linux, you should seriously consider using the cygwin version of LyX if you need a windows version.] dave case
Re: lyx cannot display Greek symbol real time
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007, Enrico Forestieri wrote: Using a cygwin text editor (vim is ok, notepad is *not* ok) create the file /etc/fonts/local.conf with the following 5 lines: ?xml version=1.0? !DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM fonts.dtd fontconfig dir/usr/share/lyx/fonts/dir /fontconfig save the file and then issue the following command: fc-cache /usr/share/lyx/fonts Now you should get the greek letters in LyX. Just a note that might help some people: Current cygwin versions install into /usr/local, so you may need to reference /usr/local/share/lyx/fonts instead of /usr/share/lyx/fonts in the instructions above. Just check to see what directories you have. (btw, I see that 1.4.4 is still the current available version) There is a lyx-1.5.2-cygwin.tar.gz at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.2, (and comparable versions for 1.5.0, 1.5.1 and 1.4.5.1). These have all worked fine for me, including showing math fonts. [A personal view: if you are already using cygwin, or if you are familiar with Unix/Linux, you should seriously consider using the cygwin version of LyX if you need a windows version.] dave case
Re: lyx cannot display Greek symbol real time
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > Using a cygwin text editor (vim is ok, notepad is *not* ok) create the > file /etc/fonts/local.conf with the following 5 lines: > > > > > /usr/share/lyx/fonts > > > save the file and then issue the following command: > > fc-cache /usr/share/lyx/fonts > > Now you should get the greek letters in LyX. Just a note that might help some people: Current cygwin versions install into /usr/local, so you may need to reference /usr/local/share/lyx/fonts instead of /usr/share/lyx/fonts in the instructions above. Just check to see what directories you have. > > > (btw, I see that 1.4.4 is still the current available version) There is a lyx-1.5.2-cygwin.tar.gz at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.2, (and comparable versions for 1.5.0, 1.5.1 and 1.4.5.1). These have all worked fine for me, including showing math fonts. [A personal view: if you are already using cygwin, or if you are familiar with Unix/Linux, you should seriously consider using the cygwin version of LyX if you need a windows version.] dave case
Compiling lyx 1.5 for cygwin?
Does anyone have information or experience about compiling LyX 1.5 for cygwin? I have really appreciated the efforts of Enrico Forestieri (and others?) who prepared distributions of LyX 1.4.x. I'm willing to spend some time compiling (or tyring to compile) it myself, but any advice or pointers would be helpful. thanks...dave case
Compiling lyx 1.5 for cygwin?
Does anyone have information or experience about compiling LyX 1.5 for cygwin? I have really appreciated the efforts of Enrico Forestieri (and others?) who prepared distributions of LyX 1.4.x. I'm willing to spend some time compiling (or tyring to compile) it myself, but any advice or pointers would be helpful. thanks...dave case
Compiling lyx 1.5 for cygwin?
Does anyone have information or experience about compiling LyX 1.5 for cygwin? I have really appreciated the efforts of Enrico Forestieri (and others?) who prepared distributions of LyX 1.4.x. I'm willing to spend some time compiling (or tyring to compile) it myself, but any advice or pointers would be helpful. thanks...dave case
Re: Lyx to word or lyx to html (to word)
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007, Miki Dovrat wrote: How can I convert my lyx document to microsoft word Google is your friend here: the first hit for convert latex to word is: http://www.tug.org/utilities/texconv/textopc.html If you have a significant number of mathematical equations, I have found tex2word to be better than anything else I have tried. If you don't have much math, there are lots of other options as well. ...dave case
Re: Lyx to word or lyx to html (to word)
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007, Miki Dovrat wrote: How can I convert my lyx document to microsoft word Google is your friend here: the first hit for convert latex to word is: http://www.tug.org/utilities/texconv/textopc.html If you have a significant number of mathematical equations, I have found tex2word to be better than anything else I have tried. If you don't have much math, there are lots of other options as well. ...dave case
Re: Lyx to word or lyx to html (to word)
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007, Miki Dovrat wrote: > > How can I convert my lyx document to microsoft word Google is your friend here: the first hit for "convert latex to word" is: http://www.tug.org/utilities/texconv/textopc.html If you have a significant number of mathematical equations, I have found tex2word to be better than anything else I have tried. If you don't have much math, there are lots of other options as well. ...dave case
Re: Why Lyx-Word?
On Mon, May 14, 2007, Steve Litt wrote: But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. As others have said, one doesn't always know where a manuscript will end up when you start writing. Or you may be working with a collaborator who insists on using Word. And so on. For what it is worth, I have had *much* better luck converting Latex to Word using tex2word (http://www.chikrii.com/) than with latex2rtf, html conversion, and so on. Of course, this is neither free nor open-source, but (for me) the time I save going this route is worth the expense. ...dave case
Re: Why Lyx-Word?
On Mon, May 14, 2007, Steve Litt wrote: But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. As others have said, one doesn't always know where a manuscript will end up when you start writing. Or you may be working with a collaborator who insists on using Word. And so on. For what it is worth, I have had *much* better luck converting Latex to Word using tex2word (http://www.chikrii.com/) than with latex2rtf, html conversion, and so on. Of course, this is neither free nor open-source, but (for me) the time I save going this route is worth the expense. ...dave case
Re: Why Lyx->Word?
On Mon, May 14, 2007, Steve Litt wrote: > > But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in > LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. > As others have said, one doesn't always know where a manuscript will end up when you start writing. Or you may be working with a collaborator who insists on using Word. And so on. For what it is worth, I have had *much* better luck converting Latex to Word using tex2word (http://www.chikrii.com/) than with latex2rtf, html conversion, and so on. Of course, this is neither free nor open-source, but (for me) the time I save going this route is worth the expense. ...dave case
Re: Can LyX handle large files ?
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am writing a math document in LyX and as the document gets longer, it takes lyx longer and longer to get started. (I am running XP on a 2.4 GHz with 1024 MB) It is certainly possible (and expected) to see much faster behavior. On similar hardware, I can open a 400 page book, with about 800 equations, in about 10 seconds. I can't tell why your system is slow, but try closing all figure floats, and (possibly) turning off instant preview. Others may have a better idea of what things cause slow performance, but it does not seem to be inherent in LyX (or with windows). dave case
Re: Can LyX handle large files ?
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am writing a math document in LyX and as the document gets longer, it takes lyx longer and longer to get started. (I am running XP on a 2.4 GHz with 1024 MB) It is certainly possible (and expected) to see much faster behavior. On similar hardware, I can open a 400 page book, with about 800 equations, in about 10 seconds. I can't tell why your system is slow, but try closing all figure floats, and (possibly) turning off instant preview. Others may have a better idea of what things cause slow performance, but it does not seem to be inherent in LyX (or with windows). dave case
Re: Can LyX handle large files ?
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i am writing a math document in LyX and as the document gets longer, it > takes lyx longer and longer to get started. > (I am running XP on a 2.4 GHz with 1024 MB) It is certainly possible (and expected) to see much faster behavior. On similar hardware, I can open a 400 page book, with about 800 equations, in about 10 seconds. I can't tell why your system is slow, but try closing all figure floats, and (possibly) turning off instant preview. Others may have a better idea of what things cause slow performance, but it does not seem to be inherent in LyX (or with windows). ....dave case
Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?
On Wed, May 24, 2006, Jan Peters wrote: 2) Why is it still a less pleasant experience to edit an equation in LyX than in either MathType (oh horror) or Scientific Workplace? I think this must depend either on what you are most familiar with, or on what you expect. For me, creating and editing equations in LyX is more pleasant than doing the same with MathType. (As with other users, I tend to mostly use keyboard shortcuts, relying on the math panel only for uncommon things that I don't remember.) At least for me, MathType seems to require more use of the mouse, and more manual tweaking to get things to look right. I have a wide screen, so I like having the math panel off to the side, rather than in a toolbar at the top. But that might not be optimal for others. dave case
Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?
On Wed, May 24, 2006, Jan Peters wrote: 2) Why is it still a less pleasant experience to edit an equation in LyX than in either MathType (oh horror) or Scientific Workplace? I think this must depend either on what you are most familiar with, or on what you expect. For me, creating and editing equations in LyX is more pleasant than doing the same with MathType. (As with other users, I tend to mostly use keyboard shortcuts, relying on the math panel only for uncommon things that I don't remember.) At least for me, MathType seems to require more use of the mouse, and more manual tweaking to get things to look right. I have a wide screen, so I like having the math panel off to the side, rather than in a toolbar at the top. But that might not be optimal for others. dave case
Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?
On Wed, May 24, 2006, Jan Peters wrote: > 2) Why is it still a less pleasant experience to edit an equation in > LyX than in either MathType (oh horror) or Scientific Workplace? I think this must depend either on what you are most familiar with, or on what you expect. For me, creating and editing equations in LyX is more pleasant than doing the same with MathType. (As with other users, I tend to mostly use keyboard shortcuts, relying on the math panel only for uncommon things that I don't remember.) At least for me, MathType seems to require more use of the mouse, and more manual "tweaking" to get things to look right. I have a wide screen, so I like having the math panel off to the side, rather than in a toolbar at the top. But that might not be optimal for others. dave case
Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006, Andre Poenitz wrote: That's like the user calling the help desk because she cannot find the any key on her keyboard. But the instructions say to press any key! I keep telling people that the 'any key' is the '5' on the numeric keys block. It works and has not much potential to break thing when hit at the wrong time. But I have a laptop, with no numeric keypad! Does this mean I can't use LyX??
Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006, Andre Poenitz wrote: That's like the user calling the help desk because she cannot find the any key on her keyboard. But the instructions say to press any key! I keep telling people that the 'any key' is the '5' on the numeric keys block. It works and has not much potential to break thing when hit at the wrong time. But I have a laptop, with no numeric keypad! Does this mean I can't use LyX??
Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > That's like the user calling the help desk because she cannot find the > > "any" key on her keyboard. "But the instructions say to press any key!" > > I keep telling people that the 'any key' is the '5' on the numeric keys > block. It works and has not much potential to break thing when hit at > the wrong time. > But I have a laptop, with no numeric keypad! Does this mean I can't use LyX??
Re: New Windows version
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006, Enrico Forestieri wrote: However I succeeded in building a native version of both Qt and LyX using the cygwin tools. When using the switch -mno-cygwin, the cygwin compilers turn into mingw compilers. Have you also tried to build a cygwin version? Since cygwin already suppies tex/latex/perl/python/sh/sed, etc., and since many people (like me) make extensive use of cygwin, having a cygwin package (that understands its posix-like paths) would be very valuable. ...thanks...dave
Re: New Windows version
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006, Enrico Forestieri wrote: However I succeeded in building a native version of both Qt and LyX using the cygwin tools. When using the switch -mno-cygwin, the cygwin compilers turn into mingw compilers. Have you also tried to build a cygwin version? Since cygwin already suppies tex/latex/perl/python/sh/sed, etc., and since many people (like me) make extensive use of cygwin, having a cygwin package (that understands its posix-like paths) would be very valuable. ...thanks...dave
Re: New Windows version
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > However I succeeded in building a native version of both Qt and LyX > using the cygwin tools. When using the switch -mno-cygwin, the cygwin > compilers turn into mingw compilers. Have you also tried to build a cygwin version? Since cygwin already suppies tex/latex/perl/python/sh/sed, etc., and since many people (like me) make extensive use of cygwin, having a cygwin package (that understands its posix-like paths) would be very valuable. ...thanks...dave
Re: bug in reconfigure (windows port)
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004, Juan Luis Chulilla wrote: I was not able to add any more latex class to lyx using the unix procedure (add class to tetex, add .layout file to lyx, Edit/ Reconfigure. Finally today I have found that executing configure.bat and then configure in a console of windows, lyx reconfigure its latex entry (which has let me use beamer, i.e.) For what it is worth, I didn't have any trouble adding the beamer class to LyX for Windows, just using the usual Edit/Reconfigure path. Study carefully what shows up in the console when you do the Edit/Reconfigure ... that usually signals what is going wrong, if there are errors. Without knowing more about what happened when you tried things the unix way, it's hard to be more precise dac
Re: bug in reconfigure (windows port)
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004, Juan Luis Chulilla wrote: I was not able to add any more latex class to lyx using the unix procedure (add class to tetex, add .layout file to lyx, Edit/ Reconfigure. Finally today I have found that executing configure.bat and then configure in a console of windows, lyx reconfigure its latex entry (which has let me use beamer, i.e.) For what it is worth, I didn't have any trouble adding the beamer class to LyX for Windows, just using the usual Edit/Reconfigure path. Study carefully what shows up in the console when you do the Edit/Reconfigure ... that usually signals what is going wrong, if there are errors. Without knowing more about what happened when you tried things the unix way, it's hard to be more precise dac
Re: bug in reconfigure (windows port)
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004, Juan Luis Chulilla wrote: > I was not able to add any more latex class to lyx using the unix > procedure (add class to tetex, add .layout file to lyx, Edit/ > Reconfigure. Finally today I have found that executing configure.bat > and then configure in a console of windows, lyx reconfigure its latex > entry (which has let me use beamer, i.e.) For what it is worth, I didn't have any trouble adding the beamer class to LyX for Windows, just using the usual Edit/Reconfigure path. Study carefully what shows up in the console when you do the Edit/Reconfigure ... that usually signals what is going wrong, if there are errors. Without knowing more about what happened when you tried things the "unix" way, it's hard to be more precise dac
Re: PDF margin growth
On Wed, May 19, 2004, Kent Kostuk wrote: I have noticed that when I create a PDF and thend print it the margins are larger (and consequently the text is smaller) than if I printed the document directly. I don't have this problem when I create and then print a PS file. This is not strictly a LyX problem, as I have noticed this when I create the PDF from a PS at the command line. Is thers some command line parameter that I need to be using to correct this? How are you printing the PDF file? Adobe Acrobat has a fit to page option (which might be on by default) that ends up scaling everying by about 94%, at least in the US with a letter page size. This has the effect of giving you a larger margin and smaller text that you want. Other programs that print PDF files might be doing something similar. With Acrobat, you can request no scaling, and you will get the margins and text size you expect. ...hope this helps...dave case
Re: PDF margin growth
On Wed, May 19, 2004, Kent Kostuk wrote: I have noticed that when I create a PDF and thend print it the margins are larger (and consequently the text is smaller) than if I printed the document directly. I don't have this problem when I create and then print a PS file. This is not strictly a LyX problem, as I have noticed this when I create the PDF from a PS at the command line. Is thers some command line parameter that I need to be using to correct this? How are you printing the PDF file? Adobe Acrobat has a fit to page option (which might be on by default) that ends up scaling everying by about 94%, at least in the US with a letter page size. This has the effect of giving you a larger margin and smaller text that you want. Other programs that print PDF files might be doing something similar. With Acrobat, you can request no scaling, and you will get the margins and text size you expect. ...hope this helps...dave case
Re: PDF margin growth
On Wed, May 19, 2004, Kent Kostuk wrote: > I have noticed that when I create a PDF and thend print it the margins > are larger (and consequently the text is smaller) than if I printed the > document directly. I don't have this problem when I create and then > print a PS file. This is not strictly a LyX problem, as I have noticed > this when I create the PDF from a PS at the command line. Is thers some > command line parameter that I need to be using to correct this? > How are you printing the PDF file? Adobe Acrobat has a "fit to page" option (which might be on by default) that ends up scaling everying by about 94%, at least in the US with a "letter" page size. This has the effect of giving you a larger margin and smaller text that you want. Other programs that print PDF files might be doing something similar. With Acrobat, you can request "no scaling", and you will get the margins and text size you expect. ...hope this helps...dave case
Re: Uninstalling LyX
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003, R. C. Gonzalez wrote: Does anyone in the LyX Users Group know how to uninstall LyX in the Windows environment? There is really nothing to uninstall (i.e. no Registry entries or the like). You can just delete your directory and re-install, or move everything to a new location. You will then (probably) want to change your PATH variable to point to the new location. On XP, go to My Computer - Properties - Advanced - Environment Variables. Make sure that the path to the LyX environment does not have a space in it (for example, it cannot be under c:\Program Files). ..good luck...dave case
Re: Uninstalling LyX
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003, R. C. Gonzalez wrote: Does anyone in the LyX Users Group know how to uninstall LyX in the Windows environment? There is really nothing to uninstall (i.e. no Registry entries or the like). You can just delete your directory and re-install, or move everything to a new location. You will then (probably) want to change your PATH variable to point to the new location. On XP, go to My Computer - Properties - Advanced - Environment Variables. Make sure that the path to the LyX environment does not have a space in it (for example, it cannot be under c:\Program Files). ..good luck...dave case
Re: Uninstalling LyX
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003, R. C. Gonzalez wrote: > > > Does anyone in the LyX Users Group know how to uninstall LyX in the > Windows environment? There is really nothing to uninstall (i.e. no Registry entries or the like). You can just delete your directory and re-install, or move everything to a new location. You will then (probably) want to change your PATH variable to point to the new location. On XP, go to My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables. Make sure that the path to the LyX environment does not have a space in it (for example, it cannot be under c:\Program Files). ..good luck...dave case
Re: Switching from the Math panel window to the document window
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Under Linux (at least) use a window manager which allows sloppy focus with the mouse... I'm unaware of what those on the dark side can do along this vein. ;-) Microsoft offers an equivalent functionality in their TweakUI series -- the focus follows the mouse without requiring any extra clicks. This is called X-mouse, presumably because they few this option as something that originated with X-window managers. ..dave case
Re: Switching from the Math panel window to the document window
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Under Linux (at least) use a window manager which allows sloppy focus with the mouse... I'm unaware of what those on the dark side can do along this vein. ;-) Microsoft offers an equivalent functionality in their TweakUI series -- the focus follows the mouse without requiring any extra clicks. This is called X-mouse, presumably because they few this option as something that originated with X-window managers. ..dave case
Re: Switching from the Math panel window to the document window
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > Under Linux (at least) use a window manager which allows "sloppy focus" > with the mouse... > > I'm unaware of what those on the dark side can do along this vein. ;-) Microsoft offers an equivalent functionality in their TweakUI series -- the focus follows the mouse without requiring any extra clicks. This is called "X-mouse", presumably because they few this option as something that originated with X-window managers. ..dave case
Re: General compat question
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003, Kirk R. Wythers wrote: I would like to hear what lyx users (or latex users for that matter) do when a particular journal requires manuscripts be submitted as Microsoft Word documents. I have tried latex2rtf, but the result leaves so much additional re-formatting work (equations, figures, tables) to be done... First, make sure that the journal _really_ requires Word. Many will actually accept formats not listed in the instruction to authors page. [I had one case where the journal claimed to required Word, but their production department was actually converting this to latex.] Second, if you end up having to convert, be sure to register a complaint. I've had publishers tell me that no one is asking for latex support. Third, you can try out some alternative converters listed here: http://tug.org/utilities/texconv/textopc.html ..good luck...dave case
Re: General compat question
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003, Kirk R. Wythers wrote: I would like to hear what lyx users (or latex users for that matter) do when a particular journal requires manuscripts be submitted as Microsoft Word documents. I have tried latex2rtf, but the result leaves so much additional re-formatting work (equations, figures, tables) to be done... First, make sure that the journal _really_ requires Word. Many will actually accept formats not listed in the instruction to authors page. [I had one case where the journal claimed to required Word, but their production department was actually converting this to latex.] Second, if you end up having to convert, be sure to register a complaint. I've had publishers tell me that no one is asking for latex support. Third, you can try out some alternative converters listed here: http://tug.org/utilities/texconv/textopc.html ..good luck...dave case
Re: General compat question
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003, Kirk R. Wythers wrote: > I would like to hear what lyx users (or latex users for that matter) do > when a particular journal requires manuscripts be submitted as Microsoft > Word documents. I have tried latex2rtf, but the result leaves so much > additional re-formatting work (equations, figures, tables) to be done... First, make sure that the journal _really_ requires Word. Many will actually accept formats not listed in the "instruction to authors" page. [I had one case where the journal claimed to required Word, but their production department was actually converting this to latex.] Second, if you end up having to convert, be sure to register a complaint. I've had publishers tell me that "no one is asking for latex support". Third, you can try out some alternative converters listed here: http://tug.org/utilities/texconv/textopc.html ..good luck...dave case
Re: Lyx-Qt 1.3.2 cannot import Tex
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003, Michael Logies wrote: Win XP Prof, Miketex 2.3, Lyx-Qt 1.3.2. when I export my *.lyx as *.tex and import it again, it cannot be openend: Cannot convert file Error while executing reLyx -f foo.tex First, check the reLyx.bat file that Ruurd provides, in the lyx/bin directory. I had to change it to make sure the paths are correct. It should look something like this: @echo off rem Wrapper script for Win32 rem written by Ruurd Reitsma set PERLLIB=c:\lyx-1.3.2\lib c:\lyx-1.3.2\bin\perl.exe c:\lyx-1.3.2\bin\reLyX %1 %2 %3 (change the c:\lyx-1.3.2 to the correct location on your computer). I also found it necessary to make the same sorts of changes to the file lyx/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx.bat, which (for me) now looks like: @echo off rem Wrapper script for Win32 rem written by Ruurd Reitsma rem c:\lyx-1.3.2\bin\sh.exe --login %0 c:\lyx-1.3.2\bin\python %0 %1 %2 I don't actually know enough windows batch programming to understand the original versions -- presumably they must work for most people, and there is something funny/missing on my machine. But the changes listed above solved the problem for me, so I hope they will help others. ..dave case p.s. thanks again to Ruurd Reitsma for putting this package together!
